Academics
Meet the Faculty

Bradley E. Cupp
Visiting Professor of Computer Science
Division: Natural Science Division
Office: Keck Science Center (KSC) 355
Phone: (310) 506-4315
E-mail: brad.cupp@pepperdine.edu
- B.A., Computer Science and Math, Pepperdine University, 1992
- M.A., Linguistics, University of Virginia, 1996
Courses:
- Senior Capstone
- Operation Systems
- Computer Networks
- Data Structures
- Computer Science Review
- Computer Science for Business
- Probability and Linear Algebra
Key Awards/Affiliations:
- The Association for Computational Linguistics
- The Association for Computer Machinery
- Computational Linguistics
- Data Mining
- Information Retrieval
- Automatic Ontology Construction
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Writing Systems
Academic Interests:
- A Simple Russian Parser in Lisp
- An Automatic Text Summarization project for WSJ articles (Data Mining)
- An Indexer and Search Engine with Automated Stemming in Perl
- Automatic detection of Speaker Gender with Neural Networks
- Information Retrieval and Human-Computer Interface
- The Automatic generation of a folk taxonomy from WordNet
- Using the Ensemble Interval Histogram as an alternative to the FFT Spectrogram for the Acoustic Analysis of Speech
- Variations on the Distance metric for Semantic Similarity in taxonomic networks